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Oct 2, 2013

Nokia patent ruling has HTC running to Qualcomm to fix the One before it gets banned

You know, one day I hope I can write a positive story about HTC, because right now it's just one piece of bad news after the other. Last week, the U.S. International Trade

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Oct 2, 2013

Qualcomm mocks Apple’s A7, says 64-bit is just a ‘marketing gimmick’ at this point (he’s right)

Apple's iPhone 5s is the first smartphone on the market to feature a 64-bit processor. According to benchmarks, it's twice as fast as the previous A6 chip in the iPhone 5, which

COMPONENTS

Oct 1, 2013

Wireless Confusion: Samsung pours $4 million into PowerbyProxi as Qualcomm joins PMA

Wireless charging is supposed to be awesome, futuristic, and dare I say it, revolutionary, but why hasn't it taken off? Long story short, there are competing standards that are, of course, incompatible with each

COMPONENTS

Oct 1, 2013

Samsung’s flexible screen factory can only make about 1.5 million panels per month

Later this month, Samsung has promised that they'll unveil their first phone to use the company's new flexible AMOLED technology. They haven't provided any details about the device, so for all we

COMPONENTS

Sep 26, 2013

Toshiba’s new cameraphone sensor sees double

Year after year, companies have shoved more and more megapixels into devices that get larger and larger, but at the same time are becoming dangerously anorexic. When building a phone with a camera sensor that

COMPONENTS

Sep 25, 2013

Samsung has no interest in fingerprint scanners, says they’re not developing the tech

Most of whatever Apple does, Samsung quickly copies. Sometimes their implementation of an Apple idea is actually better than the original, but most of the time they stumble. Case in point, today's announcement of

samsung confirms theyll unveil a curved phone next month doesnt provide any further details

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Sep 25, 2013

Samsung confirms they’ll unveil a curved phone next month, doesn’t provide any further details

For as long as I can remember, Samsung has been demoing bendable OLED screens at various tradeshows. A video my old colleagues from IntoMobile uploaded in January 2011 (see below) is proof of that. Now

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Sep 24, 2013

Samsung unveils 8 megapixel ISOCELL camera sensor, mass production slated for Q4 2013

Samsung is one of the few companies out there that have the benefit of producing a bunch of their components in-house. Samsung phones use Samsung chips, Samsung screens, Samsung batteries, Samsung cameras, you get

COMPONENTS

Sep 24, 2013

Samsung racing to start making 20 nm chips

The cycle of the computer industry can best be described as this: hardware gets faster, which lets software do more, but then hardware gets even more faster, so again, software improves. We all say that

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Sep 23, 2013

Samsung’s 64-bit smartphone chip nearly done, now we just need a 64-bit flavor of Android

Apple is a company that very rarely does anything "first", instead opting to wait for technology to mature before using it in their products. That changed with the retina screen in the iPhone 4, but

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Sep 19, 2013

Did Intel just confirm that 64-bit support is coming to Android in version 4.4 KitKat?

Hats off to Apple, they're the first company to ship a phone with a 64-bit processor. Given the rapid pace of innovation in the mobile space, I'll be shocked if we don'

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Sep 18, 2013

NVIDIA announces the Tegra Note, comes with a business model that is somewhat confusing

NVIDIA is a company that made a name for themselves with graphics cards for personal computers. The computer industry being in the terrible shape that it's in, the company decided to invest in chips

COMPONENTS

Sep 12, 2013

Have 64-bit Apple A7 envy? You’re going to have to bite your lip for a year or more.

The iPhone 5s that was announced just a few short days ago comes with a world's first, a 64-bit chip. What does that even mean? Do you remember when 64-bit computers came

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Sep 11, 2013

Seagate announces a 500GB hard drive for Android tablets. Yes, you read that right.

The 2013 Nexus 7 comes with either 16GB or 32GB of storage. That's not enough. Samsung's tablets come with memory card slots so you can add 64GB of storage. That's still not

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Sep 10, 2013

Samsung semi-announces an octa-core chip that can actually use all eight cores

Earlier this year, when Samsung announced the Galaxy S4, they said it would come in two versions. One powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600, the other powered by the company's very own Exynos 5

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Sep 9, 2013

Samsung teasing a new Exynos focused on audio features, but what are they planning?

Qualcomm's Snapdragons get all the attention, but Samsung knows a thing or two about making chips for smartphones. Unfortunately, they haven't been able to successfully put their Exynos chips inside devices that sell

COMPONENTS

Sep 6, 2013

Qualcomm veteran now VP at MediaTek

Kristin Taylor is a name you're probably not familiar with, but she's been with Qualcomm for 15 years, and most recently served as the company's head of analyst relations. According to DigiTimes,

COMPONENTS

Sep 5, 2013

Here’s difference between Snapdragon 800 2.2GHz and 2.3GHz

Binning the CPU and GPU is a pretty common phenomenon in the PC industry. When a certain chip fails to reach a desired clock speed, or has stability issues running at those clock speeds, the